July 31, 2008

Linux Wins Again

Filed under: Linux — Adam @ 2:19 pm

I decided to get an external enclosure and a nice sized hard drive to put in it.  This is because I have a lot of crap and the idea of moving all of it by disk from my current desktop to the next one I plan to get is not pleasant.  It would take forever.  I have all sorts of stuff I’ve written, pictures I’ve taken, videos made, music collected, and a ton of stuff from school.  I figured I could just make copies. I mean, that’s the logical assumption, and all.

It arrived today.  I hastily assembled the contraption and plugged it in.  Usually, Linux automagically loads everything I plug in.  This time, not so.  Hm, says I.  This is not good.  So I think about it for a half a second before I realize:  F’duh, the drive isn’t formatted.  I try to format it the old fashioned, command-line way, and the command-line reminds me that I am its bitch. So I remember, oh yeah, GUI.  And now I have a formatted 500GB drive. I made it Windows-able so I can also use it when I boot into Windows (which is like, never).

I decide to test it out and copy my writing folder.  It goes along merrily.  Then it tells me a file already exists.  This should not be so, says I, confused.  Then I look at the file name and remember; I have two copies of it, one starting with a capital letter because sometimes I’m an idiot, and the new one not.  FAT32 cannot differentiate between capital and lower case letters because the folks at MICROS~1 sure know what they’re doing.  And Linux automagically knew better than to try it.

Yay shiny new hard drive!

July 23, 2008

Blah

Filed under: Politics — Adam @ 4:47 pm

I’ve started and stopped a post about six times this week about the current political situation and my feelings about it.  The title of this post, however, pretty much sums it up perfectly.  The Republicans are going to take a beating and President McCain is the best case scenario. I’m not often writing about politics lately, but I am following it, and I’ve come to the conclusion that a majority of the electorate are idiots.  That may sound like elitism, but, well, it is.  A lot of you are filthy little whiners.

Take the mortgage crisis.  A bunch of idiots bought houses they couldn’t really afford.  Or gas prices — look, I want them down as much as anyone, but you lot that bought low MPG vehicles shouldn’t complain so much.  Bench the Hummer and buy a Civic. (If you can afford a damn Hummer, you can afford a damn Civic.) Plus, how many of the people clamoring for lower prices now have sat on their asses about drilling and refineries?

I drive 90 miles, round trip, to college.  I’m trying to minimize the number of days a week I have to make this trip.  I don’t often complain about gas prices even though they freaking suck for a college student. I damn sure don’t want some “we can’t make our own energy” Dumbo-Ears moron running this country. Drill, drill now, drill everywhere, build refineries.  And if some snooty bastard is all “Would you want to live near a refinery?” at me, then I will kick them in their balls or other genitals. I do live near a refinery, at least relative to most of you (within 20 miles), and I worked in it before.  It’s not so bad.  I’d also live as close to a nuclear power plant as I do to our coal power plant (within 20 miles) if it meant cheaper energy.  Why?

I’m not a fucking hypocrite, that’s why.

Speaking of, none of you bastards that supported Huckabee or Romney or anyone except Fred Thompson and Tom Tancredo are allowed to complain about us not having a conservative in the race.  Because we did and you supported someone else. Huckabee and Romney were not conservative.  One was a Gomer Pyle populist douche who only got as far as he did because of people supporting him out of some misguided belief that he’d bring the Jesus to DC with him (sorry, but ALL of the Republican candidates were Christian so supporting one based on just that is like supporting one because he’s an old white dude), and the other was the most liberal candidate in the field but he said he changed his mind about everything important when he decided to run for president and he looked good on camera.

And don’t even get me started on the Ron Paul supporters.  You guys missed the short bus already.

July 20, 2008

A… CLUE.

Filed under: Imbeciles and Kooks — Adam @ 10:42 pm

Yet more reason not to take the ACLU seriously at all: Rule regarding low-riding (showing more than 3″ of underwear) targets “people of color.”

So basically, what the ACLU believes, is that it is necessary for someone “of color” to show their underwear.  It’s just racist to not want to see someone’s boxers.  It’s prejudiced to be pissed off when someone wears their pants below their entire ass.

You know, if you want to show your underwear that bad, wear them on the outside, or wear them pulled up to your armpits.  But keep your goddamn pants above your ass and balls, thanks.  I don’t care if you’re “of color” or monochromatic.  Keep your shit pulled up.

July 15, 2008

Well hello.

Filed under: Entertainment — Adam @ 10:10 am

Square Enix (I really miss “Squaresoft” and started to type that) took a good long look at the console market… and decided FF13 would be a 360 title.

Sony executives were reportedly seen holding themselves and moaning in pain today.  It’s unknown if this was related.

July 8, 2008

Where the Hell is Matt?

Filed under: Personal — Adam @ 10:18 pm

De just sent me this… and everyone has to see it. Click, now.

Memo to Congress:

Filed under: Politics — Adam @ 10:01 am

We think you suck.

July 6, 2008

Oh… mai.

Filed under: Sports — Adam @ 7:49 pm

6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 9-7.

Nine.

Seven.

The match went on for almost five hours.  Five hours of near constant back and forth.

(Update — link fixed. forgot wordpress automatically converts html tags to brackets in visual mode…)

July 4, 2008

Friday Lyrics

Filed under: Patriotism — Adam @ 12:50 pm

O, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


Picture via Wikimedia Commons, here.

Happy Independence Day — 232 years and counting!

July 3, 2008

Bang bang.

Filed under: Self Defense — Adam @ 9:19 pm

Seems a former Marine in Plantation, Florida put down two criminals. The short of it is, they busted into a Subway intent on robbing the place, armed (though the article isn’t specific as to how), and when they tried to corral this old guy (71!) into a bathroom under force, he shot them both, one in the head, the other in the chest.  Good on him, and all.  But the part that gets to me is that they even bothered speaking to one of the criminals’ family.  His grandparents are upset, and that’s understandable, but here’s the point where their lives were forfeit:  ” two armed men barged into the Subway”

Sorry, at that point, you do not know what is going to happen to you or yours.  Some pretty horrific things have gone down in the recent past that started with armed men robbing someone — the Wichita Horror standing out in my mind as one reason that I don’t care what someone’s intention is.  If they try to take me anywhere, or come into my house looking for trouble, either me or they aren’t walking out alive.  Because I’m not going to become a statistic.  It’s not bravado; I don’t want to ever be faced with this situation.  No one does, except the rare breed of freaks that sit around in their basement fondling their guns with one hand and themselves with the other.  And that is an almost uncountably small minority of gun owners/self defense advocates.

You don’t know what someone is going to do if they’re breaking the law.  Period.  They came in armed.  They’ve already shown a serious disregard for the law and other persons, as the fact they’re armed is an implied threat if you don’t do things their way.  Brandishing a weapon is an offense for a reason.  You don’t know how far they’re willing to go, and your life is at stake.

Further, being a criminal shouldn’t be safe.  It just shouldn’t.  They’re willing to take from others, hurt others, maybe even kill or rape others.  If you want to go down that life path, you should have to be afraid of facing the ultimate justice.  These two criminals were adults and they made their choice.  They chose to arm themselves and attempt to take, by force, that which wasn’t theirs.  They chose.  So did Lovell.  Who knows what future crimes these punks would have committed?  He stopped those.  And criminals only get more brazen — rarely are the common murders (ie, not serial killers or guys like Scott Peterson) the first offense.

Almost every time a horrific crime comes to press we find that the perpetrator has a knee-high paper record.

So yeah, these two old people lost their grandson.  But that’s on him, and maybe his parents for not raising him with a respect for human life, not the media, not the man that shot him.  Their grandson was threatening people with a weapon.  He was in the wrong and stopped from being more in the wrong.

Link via Daily Pundit.

July 2, 2008

Oh my God.

Filed under: Entertainment — Adam @ 11:15 pm

I cannot stop laughing at this.  In this interview, Rush Limbaugh has the following to say about Bill O’Reilly:

 At dinner the night before, Bill O’Reilly’s name came up, and Limbaugh expressed his opinion of the Fox cable king. He hadn’t been sure at the time that he wanted it on the record. But on second thought, “somebody’s got to say it,” he told me. “The man is Ted Baxter.”

Ohahahahahahaha!